Soil scientists have struggled with accurately measuring water flow through soil for years. Even the smallest soil details can sway water's path from the straight, sequential line gravity alone ...

Nature Geoscience - Hydrologists have thought of soil as a kind of giant sponge that soaks up precipitation and slowly releases it to streams. But according to new evidence the soil water used by ...

These massive networks—which can make up to 50% of the living biomass of soil—are important for drawing down carbon into soil, moving around nutrients, and supporting biodiversity above ground.

We have determined the magnitude and scale of soil property heterogeneity associated with vegetation and how it affects overland flow and infiltration. We have found that the small-scale soil property ...

Biochar-Induced Changes in Soil Hydraulic Conductivity and Dissolved Nutrient Fluxes Constrained by Laboratory Experiments. PLoS ONE , 2014; 9 (9): e108340 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108340 Cite ...

Understanding how contaminants in porous materials flow and are transported is key in the fields of industry, medicine, and environmental science. RIT Assistant Professor in the School of Physics and ...